Gracing A Freeway Quotes & Sayings

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins. — Ayn Rand

Folly is as often justified of her children as wisdom. — Edith Wharton

Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment. — Agnes Smedley

It is almost always a mistake to mention Abraham Lincoln. He always steals the show. — Kurt Vonnegut

This mind is an amazing thing. It can conjure love from the scent of orange blossoms, peace from a dry breeze, and joy from a patch of grass on a summer day. — Karen Maezen Miller

Self-respect isn't something a teacher or a coach or a government can hand you. Self-respect grows through self-created success: not because we've been told we're good, but when we know we're good. Not everyone gets a trophy, because not every performance merits celebration. If we want our children to have a shot at resilience, they must learn what failure means. If they don't learn that lesson from loving parents and coaches and teachers, life will teach it to them in a far harsher way. — Eric Greitens

I have always been politically active and vaguely dissatisfied with the state of news, but I wasn't sure why. — Thomas Sadoski

How far men go for the material of their houses! The inhabitants of the most civilized cities, in all ages, send into far, primitive forests, beyond the bounds of their civilization, where the moose and bear and savage dwell, for their pine boards for ordinary use. And, on the other hand, the savage soon receives from cities iron arrow-points, hatchets, and guns, to point his savageness with. — Henry David Thoreau

Some simple truths are so clear to a dazzling degree that to realize them you need to think over and live for a long time — Ceyhun Ozsoylu

I don't believe in the wisdom of children, nor in the wisdom of the old. There is a moment, a cusp, when the sum of gathered experience is worn down by the details of the living. We are never so wise as when we live in the moment. — Paul Kalanithi

After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid. — Anne Lamott

It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy. — Virginia Woolf

If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage. — Esa-Pekka Salonen

I see you better in music, I hear you better in wind, I feel you more in a flooding moonlight, that understands nothing, but darkness and silence. — Anthony Liccione